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dingus  ·  3157 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Neil deGrasse Tyson: pedantry in space

    Imagining how gravity might be different accomplishes exactly nothing.

It's fun though, and you can sometimes get some useful mathematical tools for doing really cutting-edge science by doing pointless stuff with math.